Matthias wrote: > >PackageKit also has support for systemd-based offline-updates for a >while now, which downloads updates while the system is running, and >installs them in a special mode when the system is rebooting. This >should ensure that no breakage happens when running applications are >replaced with new versions. This is, however, a completely optional >feature, and updates of the system while it is running are still >possible with PK. >GNOME (and especially GNOME-Software) seems to make more use of >offline-updates, so we need to think about supporting it in Debian >(main issue is debconf questions, which don't work well during >offline-updates). I am not going to push that for Jessie, since it >will require some precautions in Apt/the PK aptcc backend. But if you >want, you can try it already. (Note that I want to keep this >desktop-only, since on servers it does not make that much sense (esp. >in case an error happens and the system doesn't recover correctly, >which might happen until we have btrfs, which is upstream's plan)).
Please push back hard against this - the offline-updates "feature" is a joke. Let's not try to emulate the worst bits of Windows any more please. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
